Knecht eventually leaves the society and the high position of Magister Ludi when he becomes disillusioned with a society that really is not helping society. The reader is never told how this game works but it involves all knowledge and especially music and mathematics. The men study various subjects and the Glass Bead game links them. Joseph Knecht is the young initiate into the monastic secular life of Castalia. The author received the Nobel probably because of this book in 1946. It also is full of Hesse's interest in Eastern philosophy and Western religion. I don't see the SF part of it but it also can be described as fantasy and fictional biography.
The story is the last by Hermann Hesse and is called a work of Science Fiction. Set in the future, the 23rd century, I think, the setting is Castalia.
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